To: Mr. Pink who wrote (1377 ) 5/3/1999 6:43:00 AM From: poidog Respond to of 10354
To all the spelling challenged on this thread: A letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to Mrs. F Gotch Liverpool, July 2, 1898 Wee Klere oute of hear tomoro. Doe you lyke my newe phansy in the matter of Spelynge? I have growen wery of Spelynge wordes allwaies in one waye and now affecte diversite. The cheif vertew of my reform is that it makes the spelynge express the moode of the wryter. Frinsis, if yew fealing frenly, ye kin spel frenlylike. Butte if yew wyshe to indicate that thogh nott of hyghe bloode, yew are compleatlely atte onne wyth the aristokrasy you canne double alle youre consonnantts, prollongee mosste of yourre vowelles, and adde a fynalle "e" wherevverre itte iss requiquirred. Thysse gyvves a sensse of leissuure, ande quiette dygnittie. Temore Ime goin to get mi golf Klubbs bak from Hoylik. I have swyped around that linx ownly wanss thyss yere. It took me 131 strokes and 46 of them were for the last eight holes. Wodger thinco that? Wun hoal wos a Atene, ohing to reining bloz on a balle in a buncre, my long sufring tempre having broken down. Sum of the skelpes was in the heir, counting ech as won scelp but doing kno werk. Queery: if a man hoo duzz no werk is unworthie of the name of man, whi shuld a skelp that does no work be entitled to the ful stile emoluments & privyledges of a skelp? Thys is not soe at billiards whyche is therefer the nobbler game--throo neglecting of the eydel. Toi say that a man who stands swishing a stikke in the ere haz taykne 230 stroax to go around the lynx seemes to mi pore honestie a mere subterfuge. It is by suche petty foging insinuashns that my averidge aperes as 162. Sometimes I maik mi klub describe a kerve to see whether it is a gode kerve.. Whenne ytt dosnt hytte the bal I no it iznt a gode kerve. Soe by adding to yuman nollage I gette the oprobrius naim of duffre. And thei take noe littery paipers at Holik, the Kommitty being anshus that I shud not regane my Kreddit by lening bak in mi chare with a Satyday Revyou and saying I dont think mutch of thys rag, whych woo maik Hiltun & Bawl skweurm with envie. I dont think I shal sta in that Hoilick Klub. My dere Kolleags Camble Browen, Loge, and Healshaw, sende yew thare kynde reggards. Nun of them is particklicarly litarairy, but yew must notte meind that soe longe as thei try to bear upppe under yt. Ech of them is beawtifulle when sene in the fraimwerk of hys deppartment whych soots them lyke purfick musik unto noble wyrds. So no maur atte presn't Youres W. A. R.